Updating share price

[mark.gillis at ubs.com]

Hi

I think like many of your subscribers, I'm an ex-Quicken GnuCash newbie. I've got everything up and running (GnuCash 2.4.5 on Windows 7, MySQL backend) and am coming to terms with most of the new concepts, but there's one now that I cannot sort and that doesn't seem to operate as the manual suggests. Couldn't find it in FAQ either. Any help or advice appreciated.

I have a number of accounts set up in Investments to represent Pension Funds and ISAs. Both are composed of shares which appear as subaccounts beneath these accounts, e.g.

Investments
        >Invesco
                >European Equity        (Security EEA)
        >Pensions
                >Skandia Deposit        (Security Sk D)

I have an initial value set for each security and want to add some of the historical values. I go to Price Editor and find a list (once I've expanded it out a couple of times) that contains nothing but GBP to Euro conversions. So I add a price, choosing the Security from the drop down list. This seems to work as the Total (GBP) column in the Accounts display now shows a value.

The problem is that
a) the next time I go to the Price Editor, the security is not there, so I can't just update the price as I was hoping and
b) there is no entry in the account itself (Skandia Deposit still just has the initial entry showing a transfer from Equity: Opening Balance. I was expecting to see an entry showing the value for the shares on the date for the Price update I'd made).

Can anyone give me a pointer or two to help me out here?

Thanks
Mark Gillis


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